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Jump, London

A FINE PINK GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING LEVER WATCH WITH SHORT CHAIN AND KEY 1896, NO. 575 [粉紅金二問懷錶備短錶鏈及鑰匙，年份約1896，編號575]

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Jump, London

A FINE PINK GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING LEVER WATCH WITH SHORT CHAIN AND KEY

1896, NO. 575

[粉紅金二問懷錶備短錶鏈及鑰匙，年份約1896，編號575]

• Movement: gilded, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, diamond endstone, two polished steel hammers repeating on two coiled gongs, signed and numbered Jump, 11 Old Bond Street, London, 575

• Dial: engine turned silver dial, satin finished chapter ring with black Roman numerals, outer minute ring, aperture for age and phases of the moon with gold moon and silver stars against a blued background, gold moon hands

• Case: 18ct pink gold, the back, bezel and band all engine-turned, case side with short sunken repeating slide, plain ring pendant, hallmarked London, 1896 • plain polished gold cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting, case and cuvette numbered 575,maker's markJA for James Ayres • with a short chain and key

diameter 52mm

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Joseph Jump was apprenticed to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy in 1827 and succeeded him in business in 1855. He moved to Pall Mall in 1880 and died in 1899 after which the business was continued as Jump & Sons, moving to Mount Street in 1898 until it ceased trading in 1934.